If I understand this morning's news properly, we're invading Venezuela because they nationalized some American oil company's assets and gave it to Venezuelan companies. In unrelated news, America has nationalized TikTok and given it to American companies.

https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/venezuela-oil-trump-chevron-seized-assets-blockade/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgexp1q8wn1o.amp

@adamshostack see, data is literally the new oil

@adamshostack isn’t hypocrisy one of the main traits of American culture? One of our founding principles I believe.

@buherator @adamshostack

Toxic, hard to dispose of, people think it's valuable but ultimately it's just pollution?

Yeah, checks out.

@adamshostack Funny, that.

@adamshostack At this point I'm not categorically opposed to regime change from China.

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The fact that only one of these resources is seen as a national defense priority is proof that he is too old.